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		<title>The Future That Could-Be&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re at it again, god bless &#8216;em! Those rascally Yes Men, masters of the fine art that is &#8216;culture jamming&#8217;, have hoaxed the American media. This time their ruse involved printing and distributing a fake version of the New York Times, predated to July 4th of next year, and chock-full of unlikely, progressive &#8216;if only&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;re at it again, god bless &#8216;em! Those rascally <a title="Yes Men -- Homepage" href="http://www.theyesmen.org/" target="_blank">Yes Men</a>, masters of the fine art that is <a title="Wikipedia_Culture Jamming" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming" target="_blank">&#8216;culture jamming&#8217;</a>, have <strong><a title="Fake NYTimes - online" href="http://www.nytimes-se.com/" target="_blank">hoaxed the American media</a></strong>. This time their ruse involved printing and distributing a fake version of the New York Times, predated to July 4th of next year, and chock-full of unlikely, progressive &#8216;if only&#8217; scenarios otherwise uncommon to corporate news outlets. The headline of this imposture edition, for example, simply reads, &#8220;Iraq War Ends,&#8221; a short three-word sentence that seems to sum up the hopes and dreams of many concerned citizens around the country (maybe the world?) in the post-election, Obama era of American politics.</p>
<p>(See <a title="Rocketboom - Yes Men, Fake New York Times" href="http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_nov_13/" target="_blank">Rocketboom</a>, <a title="Boing Boing - Fake NYTimes" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/fake-nyt-hits-street.html" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>, <a title="Huffington Post - Fake NYTimes" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/inew-york-timesi-prankers_n_144910.html" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a>, or the <a title="NY Times - Arts Section" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/13fake.html" target="_blank">NY Times online Arts section</a> for more details and imagery.)</p>
<p>I am particularly fond of the <a title="Fake NYTimes - online, End of Experts?" href="http://www.nytimes-se.com/2009/07/04/the-end-of-the-experts/" target="_blank">fictitious editorial</a>, presumably written by NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, brilliantly titled “The End of the Experts?”  In it the phony Friedman declares, “I will keep my opinions to myself.”  He goes on to aks:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…why are newspapers like the New York Times letting people like me make fools of themselves, mislead the American people, and, worst of all, give their wives a lifetime of ammunition? To err is human, but to print, reprint, and re-reprint error-mad humans like me is a criminally moronic editorial policy.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Here, here, faux Thomas Friedman!  For once, I couldn&#8217;t agree with you more.  Let&#8217;s hope the publishers of the fake New York Times can inspire the publishers of the real New York Times to get <em>real</em> for a change.</p>
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